A filename with the literal string " ->" in it renders a file impossible to open. about rmate HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks for reporting this bug, i'll have a look into it.

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It's definitely a pretty silly problem, but I figure it might be exposing a potential issue internally somewhere.

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Yes, you are right regarding the potential issue but there could always be the case that you have a - in your filename, eg. as leading character, which currently doesn't work either. With fixing the bug you found i also want to implement the possibility to use -- (double-dash) to end argument parsing, to make it possible to eg. open the file -foo by running

rmate -- -foo

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I have created a test-branch https://github.com/aurora/rmate/tree/issue-57 ... can you try if this works for your case? It now seems to handle stuff like "test ->.txt", etc. just fine ...

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I think this should work now @fake-name . The problem turned out to be the whitespaces in your filename which i didn't handle properly in a part of the script. Tried with your simplified test-case and also with the long (somehow obscure) filename you mentioned in your first post.

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Cool, thanks.

I wound up rewriting some of my stuff to not use angle brackets, so I kind of worked around the issue. They break on windows anyways, so it was kind of silly. I was basically embedding json in a filename because I haven't set up a proper database for a project, yet.

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